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Biracial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, for, or consisting of members of two races.

adj. Having parents of two different races.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or pertaining to two races

adj. Having parents of two races

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. consisting of, combining two races.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. consisting of or combining two races

Word Usage

"I know of 2 cases (one in my research and one in another sociological study) where parents of a white person in an interracial relationship suggested, encouraged, and promoted abortion to prevent the birth of a biracial child (I am hesitantly using the term biracial because most of the white relatives would say the child is black.)"

Equivalent

racial

Cross Reference

multiracial

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

facial glacial interracial multiracial nonracial palatial proglacial racial spacial spatial

Same Context

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